Hyland's Island: Labor Day

What a great day Labor day turned out to be.... It was supposed to be a day of staying home doing nothing getting ready for the week. We told ourselves this would be the case after spending Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Lake Arrowhead with our wonderful, gracious, friends Hardy and Phyllis. Their home in Lake Arrowhead is beautiful. They are the best host and hostess and they invited us to play in the Country Club golf scramble Friday. I thought I was just going to ride in the cart and Phyllis would say... Jackie get out - and hit the ball..... RIGHT... it has been at least 8 years since I was officially on a golf course and tried using those funny little sticks to hit the smallest dimpled ball in the world... (like shooting those sporting clays in Colorado - why not give it a try, you might actually like it) I actually managed to mostly make forward progress and I had one putt all day that went in the hole. DISCLAIMER... don't worry hubby GOLF can remain your sport not something I am ready to take up. Although, I do like the smell of a freshly mowed lawn in the morning. Rich and Hardy managed to play 64 holes of golf, Phyllis and I actually played tennis on Sunday and we took that funky little boat tour of the lake on the Arrowhead Queen... You know the one, where they point out where the movie stars lived or live and my favorite the big giant house with lots of acres around it.... a California LOTTERY winner... Life observation all those little tour boats are QUEEN something (Tahoe Queen, River Queen...)

Where oh Where is all this going .... to MONDAY of course. PHONE CALL.... Rich, says we have just been invited to go with Karen and Scott on their boat for the day. DECISION time, stay home (which is not a bad place to spend the day) or go enjoy some really fresh air, on a boat in the ocean??? Just like Jimmy Buffett says ... I'll take the deck of a boat any day. OH MY LORD (and he did not disappoint) ... the weather cleared up, the sun came out, the water turned blue, we were with great friends, on a fabulous boat.. then mother nature put on her show. Pilot Whales, BLUE WHALES and Dolphin.... I think we should have stayed home in our back yard.... yeah, right.

Pilot Whale... their must have been 30 or more.

Picture of "one" Dolphin riding under the bow of the boat. What you don't see is 8 of his or her other friends also under the bow. Jumping up so close you could hear them making noise and you could almost touch them they were so close. Amazing!